Queenstown

English

Etymology

From queen's + town, after various monarchs and consorts of the British Empire. Doublet of Quainton and Queenston. Cf. Queensville, Kingstown, Kingston, Kingstone, Coniston, Princetown, Princes Town, and Princeton. Cobh was one of many places in Ireland that changed their names in the 1920s following the Irish Revolution.

Proper noun

Queenstown

1. A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
2. A town in Tasmania, Australia.
3. A hamlet in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
4. A village in the Pomeroon-Supenaam region, Guyana.
5. A resort town in Otago, New Zealand, situated on Lake Wakatipu.
6. A neighbourhood of Singapore.
7. A town and city in Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
8. A small town in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
9. An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Virginia.
10. An unincorporated community in the town of Westboro, Taylor County, Wisconsin.
11. (historical) Former name of Cobh, a port town in County Cork in southern Ireland.
12. (historical) Former name of Queenston, a rural community near Niagara Falls, Ontario, in Canada.